Change Data.Bits.rotate to rotate Integer (unbounded) types

[Lennart Augustsson]

And what would rotating an Integer mean?  The only sensible  
interpretation I can think of is to make it behave like shift.

On Sep 18, 2006, at 23:46 , Peter Tanski wrote:

> Welcome back!  Since Data.Bits is not defined in the Haskell 1998  
> standard, are we free to change the implementation of Data.Bits?   
> if we are free to change the implementation of Data.Bits, would it  
> be all right to change the operation of rotate, rotateL and rotateR  
> over unbounded types (to my knowledge, currently only Integer)?  I  
> would like to change rotate, rotateL and rotateR to actually rotate  
> (not shift) Integers.
>
> -Pete
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